Oil tankers sunk during the global conflicts of the 20th century still hold the potential to devastate underwater ecosystems ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Underwater Photographer of the Year contest highlights compelling underwater images. The wrecks category features photos of ...

For a while, it looked like just another anomaly on a sonar screen. The French Navy was surveying the seabed off Ramatuelle, ...

Maritime experts on an expedition around the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific recently explored the wreckage of the USS Laffey, a destroyer sunk during a pivotal series of battles in World War II.

A new push to crack down on heritage crime at sea has been hailed as a "truly pioneering" by police. Historic England, working with the University of Plymouth, produced new national guidance, external ...

The experimental techniques introduced during the Yassı Ada excavation in the early 1960s by a team of young archaeologists helped revolutionize a new field of study underwater. Nautical archaeologist ...

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday. "Investigations of ship ...

Today, many of them are fruitful fish habitats, attractive dive sites and tourist attractions. So now, there’s an effort underway to create 3D models of these shipwrecks and other artificial reefs, ...

The Underwater Photographer of the Year contest highlights compelling underwater images. The wrecks category features photos of wrecked warships and sunken planes. The winning wreck photo shows a ship ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Avery Paxton, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (THE CONVERSATION) ...